Twins of the Alleghanies, 



BEER PARK AND OAKLAND, 



TWINS OF THE ALLEGHANIES. 



, j^'^THOMAS SCHARF, LL.D. 



AUTHOR HISTORY 



BALTIMORE; 

,HE ..ORHORN PUBLISHING COMPANV- 

1887. 




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Copyright, iSS;, 

Bv C. K. Lord. 




THE TWINS. 



1 1 .f the New Year struck 
.pHIRTY tin.es has ^ - doc U,e ^N ^^^ ^^^^^_^ „^^ 

1 since ^n artist, poet, and cr,b ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^_^^ 

gentle and pleasant -e^t d .n^^^^ ^_^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^,^ 
prose of "A June Jaunt j,,, crests ot the royal 

L .. year ,SSZ on.y -— ^^^^^^^^^ 
Alleghanies, to hnk the com ,„„.uissed Oh,o 

Atlantic to the fructiferous ^^ ^s Jt ^^^^ ^^^_ 

valley. No such 'ejl-tous pe or cWf ^^P ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ 

viously illustrated ^^^J^'^, ;^„iH,, ,egion of Mary- 

-r::drr^i:-;----""'-^^"'" 



toward the clouds and form that summit of the Appala- 
chian chain on which the waters part to flow eastward to 
the sea and westward to the river. In that auspicious 
and dehghtful rose-month of three decades gone by, the 
tourists (who were then the guests of the Baltimore & 
Ohio Railroad Company) viewed in that shifting panorama 
of picturesqueness that intervenes between the salt and the 
fresh waters no scene of natural loveliness upon which the 
eye would so linger, or to which memory A\'ould rexert 
with more reminiscent fondness, comparable with The 
Glades — a curious shallow dip in the crown of the moun- 
tains that seems as if formed at a moment when the 
volcanic forces of a prehistoric geologic period were creat- 
ing the contiguous peaks and had left this beautiful basin 
to settle to an intermediate level in which the crumbling 
tufa turned to productive earth and nourished the germs 
of the thick and verdant woodland through which the 
crystal trout-streams murmur and lave the feet of the bald 
and jutting rock masses. It is as if Nature had set this 
smooth and opalescent pearl to shine in contrast Mith the 
sombre grays and browns of the giant cliffs that close it 
in, and, having finished her work, had bequeathed it for 
the welfare and enjoN^ment of the toil-worn and brain- 
harrassed people of the finishing quarter of the nineteenth 
century. 

Some adumbration of the beneficent future of The 
Glades may have crossed the mental vision of those June 
excursionists of "the time before the war," for "Porte 
Crayon " was not the only one of them who had pen and 
ink and type at his command; and they have left some 
charming records of their impressions of the pleasure, and 
even some faint prefigurings of what might be when the 
world grew richer and better, and the surging tides of 



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„-, these everlasting mountains. They 
travel swept acoss the e .^^ ^^^^ ^.^^^^^^ 

.ere quite dat.ng ^^l'^^. stopping-plaees on The 
time there m.ght PO-'" ,,„„,e at OAKLAND, 

Glades than the t,dy l.ttle put, ^^^^. 

where they feasted on trout =;"d ^ ™- ^ ^^^^.^^ 

1 J fiiQt 1-hev would teai awci> tn^ 
mously resolved "-"-^Ue^hanies had been secluded. As 
whieh the jewel ot the Alle, develops 

pioneers in ^^^ ^^°' "^ ^::f:J I. forgotten; but 
the sparkle of the S^™ *'^ J^ \^,^, „„t bold enough to 
,,„ely then- venturesome tnh ^^^^^^^^.^^_ ^_^^ 

eneompass the eomn,g >7^' ' "'^^^^^i,, opposite extremi- 
liberahty should have -tab hshed at U PP ^_,^_^ 

the oppressions and nis 

and OAKLAND of the present day ^^^^^ ^^_^^_.^, 

When the sagae.ous and P' ^^ ^,.^^,^ i„ t,re 

-.^■-Vlrslurrrrptrt^ree thousand feet 

r:e :;:e .::rof the sea, an ide. -mer Home,^^to 

which the public ^'-;' ^^.;„ f^";„:'t,l, resources and 

work with --^»>'^;;' ;:,:,,.;■ builders, decorators, and 
judgment acgu.red b -c'. ^^^^^^^^^^ __^ ^^^^ formulation 

sanitary engineers we.e > ^,_^ ,,^,^es 

.„d accomplishm.. o l^'-J-^.^^^^^.^^^, ,L land. U 
of the twin re.ort. AMtn ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^_ 

would have been the ^o"-;;' L Simple and unadorn- 
'"--"r":r til mountain wilds with tawdry 
able grandeni «' "^ „^,.„„3 appreciation of the 

devices, but a conect and » ^^,,eme upon 

value of the —"/^V. AND re established, and, as 
which DE.R PARK -;d °-;';^::,.e,, ,,at are unique in 
the"::";.! There isnothmg else like them; and 



there can be nothin<T else liL-^ tu ■ . 

conduce to the perfec Te '" "' "'°"' '''^''"''' «''-'' 

penect restoration of menf-nl :.,-,, i i ■ , 

robustness, the supreme peace the ^.,T ^ '^'"^^ 

days of luxurious ease or rls 1 T' "^J">^--^^' ^^e 

ccihe, or as one chooses'i r^f ;,. • 
inp- everrfc^- fi-.^ ■ • '-Jjuuhts) of invigorat- 

ing exercise, the associations of cultuivrl -.nri ■ , 

the night, of .nb.oken and pro," . ^ 1":;';': L^"^'",^' 
cines outside fI^^- ,.].o • '^"^ medi- 

t.;e P.-o.e™..,ethe/h;:". ::;;,: :;;\';r,;f-'-- 

wh.ch rules upon the crest of the Alic^han^^ he T "" 
mcd.um ,s attained between the noisv an "^^' 

of certain resorts that mereK t """'^"* "'"■''' 

citv to th - '™nsfer the routine of the 

their beds were hard ,f • ^ ""'" ^teatnrg, because 

-n,ed, and their ":::;,its'Id:Z: "'r^' ^ T 
elegance, luxury, on the .n-e.f . , comfort, 

the state,, ho.:,', and iirtr„::r o'^ ■^■■;" " '^ '"' ^™- 

primitive forests o,- , ''^"'-' ''"^ plunges into the 

leaves the ^ TuZ.r''"'' '° "^ --■-' crags, and 








DEER PARK. 






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The approach to Deer 
Park from the east is a fit 
preparation for a sojourn at the spot. 
On that "June Jaunt" of 1857 was 
an impressionable Frenchman, who 
fffl '• ' began ejaculating "C'est magnifique!" 

/ '^ / in a lively tenor, as soon as he had passed Har- 
per's Ferry, and kept it up for mile after mile in crescendo, 
until his voice was lost in altissimo and the clouds, some- 
where"" about Altamont. He was a gentleman of fortunate 
discernment, and had an admirable, though sententious, 
gift of expression, as has been attested by innumerable 
thousands who have since passed over the route with much 

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the same sort of comment. For it A m, ■« 

the coursing streams of M p '"^gn-ficent to trace 

to where they s ^ ti,e r " "''""''' "^'^ ""'"-d 

springs; to wi „:::;:„: "^^p^'-^""»-~"' 

■•"g precipices, and, on t„ ot ,aTd , "" '™-"- 

;-b,ing into the gorges far I o " rj .It '''-'^ 
the eye upon the rock wall f , , ^rced of 

tion starts out wherever a crj 7 ' P"'"" ^^«^'- 

of mold and earth- to \TT P"™''""'' ^ 'i'^P^'t 

and pines .wa^ng ' t" t e In's" "l' T'^ ^"' "^'"'°^^-^ 
and meilowed 'glimpses of h B,ue" Rir","^ '""T 
'ts irregularly curvated heads into thnf . ,"" " ''"' 
atmosphere that colors it , , '"descnbable azure 

derives its name ' "' """^ "'"^'' " "S^^^'^^'v 

't is from almost a surfeit of fl,. i 

"ature that the ,aze of" t e , ^ ^'^ '"^ P""'°' "' 

r ^ *= °' ^^^^ trave er o-reefq <-h« ^ -j 

horizon, and where th.. r P'^"aor^ of the western 

"^e summits aidi:: ent;:: eifo^ r;"'"'" "-'"- 

to-be-worded ooem L , ^ shadow is a never- 

-™-f, .-n th^ridTt":? :;: ::in::„Mf :;r- ^^- 
:::r::f:"'S;re:i:-rr''r^---— - 

exhausted fore' bv ,r f '" '°"" '° «^"P^"te 

'o-.ng and e'Lu tl "'"" ""° """^^" °' "-' ™"- 

There\vas a mve ;™:, °' ''-' ^-"-- ^^orid. 
cient Grecian myth of the ;'g"'fi""-e in that an- 



and with the strength expended in the struggle renewed 
and increased ; which symbolizes the refreshing power that 
Nature transmits to those who place themselves in contact 
with her, and in the heart of the Alleghanies she is most 
profligate of her health-dispensing forces. 

It is a satisfying picture which the vision embraces as 
it takes in the long, sloping promontory at Deer Park, — - 
the smooth lawns, laid out with the perfection of land- 
scape-gardening; the plats of blooming flowers; the sparkle 
of the fountains; and the handsome hotel building, with its 
spacious verandas, furnished with chairs, sofas, and lounges; 
the annexes on each side; the cottages, the billiard houses, 
bowling alleys, and perfectly appointed bath houses, half 
concealed and half revealed ; the archery ground, the tennis 
ground — everything that a wise catering to a brigade of 
guests could suggest and an unstinted use of capital could 
command. It has been a never-neglected maxim of the 
Baltimore & Ohio management to discover the wants of 
the sojourners, and supply them ; and so, from year to 
year, improvement has followed improvement, until it now 
seems as if the acme of excellence has been reached ; but 
if Deer Park can be made anything nearer a mundane 
paradise than it is at present, there is no question but 
that the finishing touches will be supplied. It is not pos- 
sible that they can be numerous or important. 

The popularity which it has been the well-earned for- 
tune of the resort to merit, has steadily grown from season 
to season. To the founders there was, perhaps, somewhat 
of a surprise in the fact that in the first year the demand 
for accommodations was heavier than could be met, but 
they at once provided against another such emergency, by 
enlarging and adding to the buildings ; and it is the proud 
record of Deer Park, since that time, that, while the 



season sees it thronged therr^ ;^ 

^vhich robs a sumnn. tr. ' """"^ ""^ ^^'^' crowding 

dictated the constant ev ' ' '"""' '"'^'"°"' P°''^>' 'h" 

PAKK prevails r::i7::::: -/^;""-"--'--nt or n,,, 

tlie reason why its reoLV 'i^^nagement, and is 

Before the i es no wb "• '^ "'"°"'' "'" "^"^^'"g- 
tl>e usua, spring on :,.;:^. "7^" ^^ '-' '"'o type, 
the question -m^"^:' '" '" ^°™«'- -"inet. on 

been held in manv 7h . '''■" '" "'""""■^- "'ili have 

in many thousands of families- anH it ■ 
ter-of-course assertion that f.nv .1 " ■'' "^'- 

without a canvassing n , '°"'' ""' >«= ''^''^I'ed 

DHER Park holds oL '""'"'"»" inducements which 

The MOUNTAIN SrPMFP^- 
readiest answer to the . ""'"" "P' "^ "''■ ^''^t and 

convenient r I h of 1 TT^"""^^'' ^'""'"^■'^ "=■- -'".in 
t- and the M ssiss pp is H '°""''' ''''''^'" "^ ^tlan- 
for diversity cict ' '"^'"''"S ™n,parable to it 

beauties Tay :^'Z7''' '"' ^'"™- " ""^°"^' '-» 
mountain paths, folio .'' ^e °" u- '" "^ "■■^^- ^'""^ "- 
summit of any of t "'^^P^^'^'''"^ ^'^--^s. or gains the 

the ranges that se m L "'"' '"' '^''"'"^ '"-^f™- 

the .pel, Of m::^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

the .;rre„?„ ' :; :: --- h..,™.....3s. to 

winter of work and "^7 he d T """ '°"'" ^""^ ^ 

a panacea as anything on arthTh '""■''"' " " ^^ "^^^ 
in. mental and physi'^,, deb Uy- e7:eT"7'^ '''^''" 
quickened pulses rich hi ■ ^ " '"""« "'ith 

Panded lunjs, an^d a^rt ^^. '^^^'Z^ — e. 

^^. inert aie tonic properties 



in the breath of these forests and in the mountain zephyrs 
that, in the providence of Nature, exist to brace up the 
the enfeebled frame and restore intellectual vigor. Not the 
least of these functions is the cure of sleeplessness — a 
malady that the tension of the nervous and high-strung 
life of successful Americans has particularly inflicted upon 
them. The victim of insomnia knows that his defenses 
against all diseases are broken down, and he knows, too, 
that no medical skill can bless him with the "Sleep that 
knits up the raveled sleeve of Care." But where Science 
fails, Nature comes to the relief of her children, and, away 
up here on the backbone of the Appalachian ridge, the in- 
somniacs, who may be numbered by annual hundreds, have 
found that consolation which only an insomniac can under- 
stand,— real sleep, perfect sleep — the sleep in which body 
and brain conjointly share, and from which they emerge 
ready to take up the burdens and fight the battles of mor- 
tality. All visitors to The Glades have remarked upon this 
especial property of the atmosphere, and a long roll of 
invalids have been benefited by it. And in all other re- 
spects Deer Park is a sanitarium without being a hospi- 
tal. When the annual convention of the American Med- 
ical Association was lately held here, the most eminent 
physicians among its members were requested to make an 
investigation of the sanitary conditions, and the result was 
a certificate, signed by the committee (which comprised 
some of the most prominent sanitarians in the country), 
declaring the precautions and arrangements in this regard 
to be practically faultless. The water was found to be 
brought from a crystal spring into the house, by gravita- 
tion, and stress was laid upon the fact that the stables and 
vaults were so far removed from the hotel as to preclude 
any possibility of contamination. Since last season an ad- 



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ditional and bountiful supply of water has been added from 
the celebrated boiling springs, which are distinguished for 
the great curative value of their watei. As to the sewerage 
system, the servants' quarters, the kitchens, and other sub- 
sidiary buildings, the report highly commended their excel- 
lence in all the features that sanitary experts could insist 
upon. All the serious illness at The Glades resorts is that 
which is brought there by valetudinary guests, and the able 
physicians of the hotels, Dr. T. BARTON Brune, at Deer 
Park, and Dr. J. L. McCOMAS, at Oakland, often find time 
hangs heavy on their hands for lack of professional work. 

The third answer relates to the METHOD OF LIVING. 
Mention has already been made of the pleasing exterior 
and environment of the Deer Park Hotel, but they are 
only a promise of the content that may be found in the 
interior. The Company have placed in charge of this and 
the Oakland House, Mr. GEORGE De SHIELDS, formerly of 
the Grand Union Hotel (Saratoga), the West End Hotel 
(Long Branch), and the Riggs House (Washington). It 
will thus be seen that the manager is a graduate of schools 
that have afforded him a broad experience. The cuisine at 
the Deer Park Hotel has never been anything else than 
up to the mark of the foremost hotels and restaurants, and 
has been noted for certain luxuries that are only to be ob- 
tained in the m.ountains. It is hardly worth while to say 
that under the present administration there will be no 
change, unless it be for the better, if that be possible. 
But the table is merely one of the recommendations of 
the Deer Park Hotel. The newcomer is rather astonished, 
at the outset, to discover that the entire house is lighted by 
electricity; that the bedrooms are very much larger than 
dry-goods boxes; that the furniture is substantial and 
elegant, the carpets soft and thick, the beds downy and 



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encc bctvv.v,, this i„,| , " '"■"■'^"- ''"»" tl>^ differ. 

-'->„,,„ ,„ „,,;'.'; ,,''^- ::"- ."ac. .„ „,„c, „e has 

°'" ='-■ i-tci ,h.,, ,■/-,;;; ;i-":i>'-s„re.- Th,-„ugh- 

"'•" '••■"■^- ^t,„n,,cd ,hd,. i '''■■"■■■""'■'• "f '1'^- guests 

'•"'«bly ch.Vat <|. , ' ""T """" "■ '^'•^^ '--'y i^ 

''■^' ^■■^^'-■' ••'-' -.'r: ::tn;'" •"— ....eiof 

-prcscuatnc of the- st,o„,.eV , ' """"""^ "P''"^'' " - 
•^"'-■ican UU: This is t ^ ^ K T' ''"''^''"' ^"■^'••> »' 

•■''^ "f Queen .A„,K. archit. , 'h''""'^ "' """^ ^''-"^i^' 

'" -den, style .h,„.„ho„ :„„ "■ "">"" -- f-ni^Hed 
"^>- ^"Ul co,nfo,,able ho,,,;. ,"-^''J"""g "ecdf„| fo,. a 

'" -l-ouse-keep- („ „,^. „7; ""''. """^ '"•■<'*"?■'» soon ready 
-^ ^••'-■"'-s-.thee,, ,rr'^!"V^'''' => "P"^' -a,-^ 
■ng character. The l„ta. ; r n "■ "'''' °' "■'-i-nd- 

-bundance of porches, and rel , ''""'' '■°"'">- « ' " an 

f'-'ff -^Lade and sp.enJd 1 "''"'' '"''^ S"„d old fees 
;-'< ''-<K has be.™ a f ;,;™"';''^ '-• "- "«le one : 
«ders of states,„anship. ar fa er ': " "" "'■''">■ "' ''- 
"•'7 «■«" an enviable'tone ;' H' ""f r'^"^^' and they 

'" addition to Ji,d,ti„„ ,, °'"^' f°""s. 

P-.dn,g an abnnd^nt :,;;;":;"'-■' "-" electHci,,,, and 
''"'"'S -^Pnnjfs, a n„n,ber f ' ,d ■ ■ ""!^'^ '"'"^ '''e fa„,o„3 
•=-■" added since last seaso, ,; t r'^' ""P'-°™"«Us ha , 
'■■^^". «h,ch „,„,st call f„,,r ' '"'■•'••'* I'-^'O^ and O I- 

o/ •;- n,ana,e„,en. J^Z"''''' ""'■^^ °' •'- libera, t': 

''a.l. house ;;;;'""'-"^' 'l«-ou. and pe b """'^P''^-^- 

' •'-• --'e-d. and so a,'ra,td'\ f °'"'^'' 
.6 ^''" '^-^ to meet 



the wishes of all. There are small bath rooms and large, 
and a great, grand pool for swimming, in each division — 
that is, separate pools for either sex — -and so constructed 
as to permit the swimmer or the novice to disport at pleas- 
ure, and without the slightest danger. Steam apparatus is 
so connected as to enable the maintaining of a proper 
temperature of both water and atmosphere, and it is be- 
lieved this improvement will be one of the most popular 
ever made at Deer Park. 

The PLENTIFULNESS OF AMUSEMENTS is a fourth answer. 
No hour can hang heavy on the hands of anyone who is 
disposed to spend it in pastime. The drives over the moun- 
tain roads are unfailing attractions; and as Deek Park and 
Oakland are but six miles distant, and connected by a 
superb carriage-way, the mingling of their respective guests, 
to a great extent, identifies them in interest and occupa- 
tions. The walks and the paths that may be penetrated on 
horseback can not be neglected by the enthusiast that seeks 
to solve the secrets of the mountains; trout can be found 
in great abundance in the adjacent streams, and for the 
hunters of large game the teeming Blackwater Country is 
not far distant. At Deer Park and around it there is con- 
stant occupation for every sort of temperament and dispo- 
sition. An excellent orchestra is maintained during the 
season ; informal dances or more elaborate social events are 
always on the programme, and some very notable affairs of 
society have taken place here. At various times each week 
the orchestras of the two hotels are combined, and grand 
concerts given, which compare favorably with those of the 
winter months in the leading music halls of the principal 
cities. The twin resorts have first-class liveries, perfectly 
appointed laundries, telegraph and express service, and, in 
short, everything which can be found at the leading summer 
places. '" 



A fifth reason for tlic cclcbrit\- of T)KI:r Park is its 
ACCESSIHM.F TN'. Located directly upon the main stem of the 
Baltimore & Ohio Raih'oad, it is easily and quickly reached 
from every quarter, all trains, in each direction, making it a 
stoppin<;-place. Leaving New York in the afternoon, and 
rhilailelphia by the new Philadelphia Division of the Balti- 
more & Ohio Railroad, at 4:50 P.M., the stranger arrives at 
Deer Park the ne.xt morning for breakfast. From Balti- 
more, any of the daily trains make the run in seven hours, 
and from Washington the time is sixty minutes less. From 
Pittsburgh or Cincinnati, the journey occupies but the part 
of a day or a night, while from St. Louis it is not quite ten 
hours longer, or a little more ])rotracted than frtmi Chicago. 
The trains of the Baltimore & C^hio Railroad Company are 
matle up of as fine and perfectly appointed coaches as there 
are on the Continent ; the sleeping and parlor cars, the 
buffet and dining cars, and even the ordinary day coaches, 
banish all the discomforts of travel, and the trains are re- 
nowned for the fast time made. 

The sixth and concluding merit attaching to Deer Park 
is the MODERATE HOTEL RATES in comparison with the 
benefits afforded, the accommodations enjoyed, and the at- 
tention paid to the comfort of each individual guest. Such 
a table, such pleasant rooms, such music, and such a round 
of amusements do not, in the opinion of the management, 
justify the exorbitant charges made elsewhere at resorts of 
the highest class, for which reason the element of economy 
has something to do with the selection of The Glades where- 
in to profitably pass a vacation. Prices range $60, $75, and 
$90 per month; $15 to $21 per week, or $3.50 per day for 
transient guests. A matter of some moment is that there 
is no stage or omnibus riding to be done, as the trains stop 
at the platforms of the hotels. 




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OAKLAND. 



Al I that has been said of 
1)1 1 K Park, except as to the 
incidents of location, applies with 
like appropriateness to its twin, 
\ Oakland, which is situated six 
miles westward, on the mountain 
edge, from which the route trends 
across the West Virginia country, passing through the savage 
majesty of the Cheat River before it debouches upon the 
plains watered by the confluences of the Ohio. It really 
does not matter a great deal whether one takes up his 
abode at Deer Park or at Oakland. If he desire to be 
out upon the open mountain, with a tremendous panorama 
spread before him, he will select DEER PARK; if his fancy 
rather runs toward an abode under the cool umbrage of 
those forest monarchs that entitle OAKLAND to its name, his 
choice will centre there. 

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I'hc hotel is set in the midst of an exquisitel}- beautiful 
park, in and around which are the noble oaks of centuries' 
growth, while the walks, the lakes, the drives, the flower-beds, 
and the fountains environ it and them. From the front of 
the house the e)'e roams down through clustering foliage and 
across the j)urling brooks, until it rests upon the spires and 
roofs of the jDretty village of OAKLAND. At the rear of the 
hotel the mountain towers to an overtopping height, and 
constitutes a sharp and strong contrast, with its undisturbed 
naturalness, to the symmetrical proportions of the hotel and 
the graceful diversity of the grounds. 

The visitor to OAKLAND and the visitor to Deer Park 
can not help making acquaintance with the sister of the place 
which cither niay have settled upon for his summer residence. 
In the season, the roadwMy which connects them takes on the 
similitude of a fashionable avenue in Central Park, Fairmount 
Park, Druid Hill Park, the drive to the Soldier's Home at 
Washington, the Mount Auburn road in Boston, the Lake 
boulevard at Chicago, the Cliff House road of San F^rancisco, 
or any other of the suburban avenues of the great cities upon 
which horseflesh may be speeded and the beauty of women 
and the gallantr)- of men displayed. Many of the guests of 
The Glades houses bring with them their own fine equipages, 
.md make a show upon the mountain avenue of blooded stock 
and the most elegant specimens of the art of the carriage- 
builder. Those not so fortunate as to possess their own teams 
find at the livery-stables good horses and vehicles of every 
description that may be desired. More than forty miles of 
excellent driving-roads are open to use, and are especiall}' well 
constructed, being almost as smooth and even as race-tracks. 

As at Deer Park, so at Oakland, the original hotel 
buiklings have been supplemented by wings at each extremity. 
connecting with the main structure b)' covered passages. The 



ball-room at Oakland is an extension of the east wing 
toward the mountain, and opening from the main parlor as 
well as out upon the gallery. The front of the hotel is given 
up to spacious cool verandas, and the interior arrangements 
are peculiarly attractive. The lower floors are occupied by 
drawing-rooms, parlors, reading-rooms, offices, and the com- 
modious dining rooms. They — and the sleeping-rooms above, 
en suite or single — are so constructed as to afford the very 
best circulation of the clear, fresh mountain air, and at neither 
Oakland nor Deer Park is there a living apartment which 
does not look directly out upon the exterior scene — a vast 
difference from hotels built around a quadrangle and having 
the interior rooms open upon a dark court that is a foe to 
ventilation, sunlight, and vista. The furniture and bedding 
are such as a connoisseur in the accomplishment of procuring 
ease provides for himself at his own home, and usually seeks 
for in vain outside of it. 

To a previous reference to the atmosphere of The Glades 
as being an antidote to insomnia, there may be the addition 
made that it is an infallible remedy for that most distressful 
and exasperating of all ailments, hay fever. The altitude is 
an enemy of the latter disease, and sufferers for many years 
have declared that here they found relief which had been 
denied them at any other place where they had sought a cure. 
Malaria and its kindred evils — in fact, any sort of zymotic 
disease — can not exist on these mountain heights, and the 
chronic victims of them discover, after a sojourn of only a 
few days, that the malefic germs are being exterminated from 
their systems. President Grant was one of the many who 
acknowledged the grateful and health-restoring effect of a 
stay on The Glades ; and a hay-fever invalid who had been 
tortured with the disease for over thirty years sent to the 
management a xoluntary assurance that he had there secured 



more benefit than at any other spot he had ever visited, and 
that he enjoyed perfect immunity from attacks during his 
entire stay. This high and moderately dry atmosphere is 
equally efficacious in the cases of enervated women. There 
is on record the case of a lady who arrived on The Glades by 
an evening train, and who for sixty nights previously had 
known no sleep that was not induced by narcotic drugs. 
Within a few hours after her arrival, and while the nightly 
medicines were being prepared, she fell into a profound slum- 
ber that, at the end of eight hours, was only terminated when 
she was awakened by her husband, who erroneously feared 
that such a sleep could not be natural. Incidents of this 
sort, covering a multitude of chronic and acute ailments 
which have been ameliorated or cured at the twin resorts, are 
numerous and well authenticated. 

Flies and mosquitoes, the pests of the seashore and low- 
lands, are not known on the summits of the Alleghanies, 
which are phenomenally free from all kinds of insectivorous 
life. When it is remembered that the lower forms of such 
life develop most and thrive best in noxious atmospheres, 
it will be understood that their scarcity in these regions has 
an essential relation to the salubrity of the Alleghanies. 

To sum up the attractions of The Glades, it may be said 
that there is positively no natural or artificial feature lack- 
ing that leads toward the iiltima of a pleasurable vacation. 
The world is growing so very much wiser than it used to 
be, that the selection of the place and method for spending 
a holiday is now usually a matter of careful and perspicuous 
judgment. It is all the better that it should be so, for a 
choice made without deliberation is likely enough to be a 
torment in the end ; therefore, a consideration of the induce- 
ments which Oakland and Deek Park hold out is espe- 
cially^desirable. The advantages to health, the character of 

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accommodations, the tone of society, the Hmit of expenses, 
shoiihl l)e dul)' weii^hed ; and it is not feared that in any of 
these essential respects the hotels of The Glades will be 
dwarfed by comparisons that embrace all the resorts toward 
which summer travel tends. 



The season will open June 23. and continue until about 
October i. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company issues 
round-trip, low-rate, summer-excursion tickets, yood to return 
until October 31, which will be on sale at all its offices. Mr. 
De Shields, manager of Deer Park and Oakland hotels, 
may be addressed at the 'Queen Cit}' Hotel, Cumberland, 
Md., until June 10, 
and after that date at 
Deer Park. Diagrams 
of the hotels, with full 
explanations of the 
location of rooms will 
be exhibited by him 
to all applicants, thus 
facilitating the selec- 
tion of accommoda- 
tions. 




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